September 15, 2005 (vol. 115, iss. 147) • Page Image 20
… for any- one of Arab decent. We also will NOT-produce any product for any customer, regardless of your ethnic- ity, that has a shipping address to an Arab country. We are not racist, but wish to have no…
… divisions in the electorate, whereas partisan elections tend to downplay those divisions. In East Lansing, pro-student City Council candidates routinely get 90 percent of the vote in MSU dorm precincts, while…
… are clear, students can have enormously more impact in a nonpar- tisan election. erhaps as a result of those structural dif- ferences with Ann Arbor, or perhaps out of simple decency, East Lansing…
… officials rec- ognized the low student turnout after the 2000 presidential election and formed a nine-member elections task force, in part, to deal with it. In its report, released the following April, the…
… task force - which included city and county officials, as well as a student government official - noted the difficulties students faced because of the Motor Voter law and, among other recommendations…
… on campus annually." Such a coalition was formed later that year and given the name YouVote. It quickly started a website, yovo e.msu. edu, to provide students with a compre- hensive guide to voter…
… registration. The website also provides information on national, state and local issues, initiatives and candidates that students will see on their ballots; its student coordinator, who is either paid or…
… receives credit for the work as part of a graduate program, teaches a service-learning English course where students are assigned to gather informa- tion for the website. This year's director, Tim O…
…'Malley, is currently assigning his students to create and send questionnaires to be filled out by local candidates for City Council and city clerk; the responses to the students' questions will be posted on…
… the website. YouVote, whose members include the city clerk, Michigan State University's director of community relations and offi- cials from student government and resi- dence hall government, also…












